Monday, February 7, 2011

Design Wall Monday

A few weeks ago, Judy from Patchwork Times told her readers that there is NO EXCUSE not to learn how to make socks - with You Tube and the internet, it's almost like having someone sitting next to you teaching you. I've tried socks before - no luck. Maybe because I started with sock weight yarn, and it was too fine for my extra large hands?

Either way, my daughter asked me for a pair of warm sock slippers. Why not? Should be easy. I checked what I hand I on hand, found a pattern that seemed doable, and made these -

Now of course, pinks/blues are definately not her colors, so after proving to myself that I could do it, I bought a more "her" color (as close to black as I could find) and whipped up these, in just two nights !

So, don't ever give up - cause if I can figure it out, anyone can ! Next week - back to quilting ! To see what others are working on, check out Judy's blog at Patchwork Times !

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They have the best prices hands down on swimsuits for the beach and pool (Swim Outlet for racing or practice suits) Yesterday I threw a couple (ok, 5) suits in the cart and a cover up or two (or three) and looked at the total ... Yikes $520 before any coupon. Now - here's the kicker ... they offered a coupon for "up to" 70% off - so I tried that ... my total went down to $300. Not bad, but more than I wanted to spend, so I searched around. Tried another code that was for 50% off everything .... and that did the trick - It subtracted $290 and I ended up paying $230 - because it took 50% off items already on sale. Win/Win. Even if it was just 5 suits it would have been less than $50 a suit, but with the added coverups - less than $30 an item. Some of the suits were originally over $80 so I'm pleased. Anyway - the code I used was 16RE6

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